demolish
verb
[ dɪˈmɒlɪʃ ]
• pull or knock down (a building).
• "the house was demolished to make way for the shopping centre"
Similar:
knock down,
pull down,
tear down,
bring down,
destroy,
flatten,
raze,
raze to the ground,
level,
reduce to ruins,
bulldoze,
break up,
topple,
blow up,
blow to bits/pieces,
obliterate,
annihilate,
wipe off the face of the earth,
wipe off the map,
dismantle,
disassemble,
total,
throw down,
unbuild,
Origin:
mid 16th century: from French démoliss-, lengthened stem of démolir, from Latin demoliri, from de- (expressing reversal) + moliri ‘construct’ (from moles ‘mass’).
